alright so I've read through/am all caught up with The Big Three ™️ (One Piece, Naruto, Bleach) which I really enjoyed (especially One Piece), only Bleach didn't really do it for me after a certain point. I've also read Shaman King and watched both Fullmetal Alchemist and Samurai Champloo, which I found pretty good all around. However I am now looking for a new meaty, long manga/anime to fill the hole that those series left. Anybody got some recommendations? So far my list of series that are supposed to be pretty good consists of HunterxHunter (although I've read that it hasn't gotten any new content in a long time), Cowboy Bebop and Death Note. My friend keeps telling me to watch Attack on Titan but I've read that the mangaka is a huge reactionary dweeb so I haven't given it a shot so far. Any other recommendations that hit a similar spot as those titles?
For "still shounen but a bit different":
The Promised Neverland
Made in Abyss
Manga is much longer than the anime for both of these.
The Promised Neverland manga just wrapped up at about 200 chapters iirc; Season 2 of the anime begins airing in January.
Made in Abyss is much slower going and shorter (only 50ish chapters in the manga so far), but very much worth it. The anime has 1 season and an OVA out.
For "very shounen in a stereotypical way"
Absolutely second all the votes for My Hero Academia
Demon Slayer
Food Wars!
Haikyu!!
Food Wars and Haikyu are definitely less thematically heavy than other suggestions here and elsewhere in the thread. They're really just fun, popcorn watches. A nice palate cleanser between heavier shows.
Other Suggestions:
Gurren Lagann
Space Dandy
FLCL - very short, very absurdist, very worth it
re:Zero - Incel NEET learns he's not actually the center of the universe and that his actions have consequences in the most gruesome ways possible? yassss pleez. Technically a light novel series with anime and manga adaptations. light novel is quite long, anime is at 1.5 seasons long right now, with cour 2 of season 2 starting on january 6th
Yona of the Dawn: Anime only has 1 season, but the manga is still ongoing and hnnng so good, especially recently. good if you like political maneuvering and machinations and morally grey character. it is technically a shoujo series (yes, there's a love triangle) but it is well written and the art is fantastic so I'm throwing it in here.